Articles by West Coast Craig

About West Coast Craig
West Coast Craig reports from Hollywood with an endearingly laid back style. A happily married father of two little boys, WCC has an avocado tree in his yard, plays the hot corner in a "Valley" hardball league and always manages to take cool sports-related mini road-trips, often with his immediate clan. He hails from Oneonta, NY but has been "So very L.A." for twenty years, so his sports teams are the Yankees AND the Dodgers, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the L.A. Lakers and the Colorado Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques. WCC loves bacon-wrapped hotdogs and can touch his heel and his ear... with his hand.
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A GOLDEN AGE OF CYNICISM

May 4, 2009 West Coast Craig 24

By West Coast Craig “When a sportswriter stops making heroes out of athletes, it’s time to get out of the business” — Grantland Rice PRESS […]

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BETTOR THAN FOOTBALL?

April 27, 2009 West Coast Craig 28

by West Coast Craig LOS ANGELES, CA – This weekend was a baseball nadir for me. Nothing seemed to go right. The Yankees were ignominiously […]

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PORTRAITS IN GOOFBALLS #1

April 20, 2009 West Coast Craig 0

by West Coast Craig GOOFBALL WING, COOPERSTOWN – Baseball is a sport full of nutjobs, loonies, and characters, this much is true, though it seems […]

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DEVOURING TIME, BLUNT THOU THE LION’S PAWS

April 12, 2009 West Coast Craig 12

by West Coast Craig Avon — That’s right, I’m throwing a little Shakespeare at y’all this morning. This year’s Masters had already plucked the keen […]

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OPENING DAY

April 6, 2009 West Coast Craig 34

By West Coast Craig The bunting lines the fences, a Tide commercial of bright light and shimmering primary colors in the noonday sunshine. It lines […]

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THE ARTIST FORMALLY KNOWN AS PRINT

March 30, 2009 West Coast Craig 23

by West Coast Craig   “Print is dead”  —  Dr. Egon Spengler   He said that in 1984, and even the man who once tried to drill […]

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WCC AT THE WBC

March 23, 2009 West Coast Craig 15

by West Coast Craig   Chavez Ravine–In 1998 I went down to the Los Angeles Coliseum to see the US Soccer team play World Champion Brazil […]

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MEAT MARKET

March 16, 2009 West Coast Craig 0

By West Coast Craig  TOMMY LASORDA FIELD OF DREAMS–Yes, that’s the real name on the wood sign at our neighborhood t-ball field…a strange, tilted rectangle […]

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GET TO THE POINT, WOULD YA JIM.

March 9, 2009 West Coast Craig 12

by West Coast Craig DATELINE SUNSET STRIP: I’ve got another Los Angeles sports related story for you today, one that came to me when the […]

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MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING

March 2, 2009 West Coast Craig 16

by West Coast Craig  IPANEMA, BRAZIL — As reported here on MTM this past week, Jerry Manuel made a keen observation that baseball is played […]

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